Marshall St. Clair

“A science block, a maths block, and a small outbuilding for home economics, but the main Mount Temple is a single-story cinder-block building of three corridors—one green, one yellow, one purple—cross-sectioned in the middle by a wider corridor known as the Mall. On the Mall is where I first see Adam Clayton, where I first spy Larry Mullen with his beautiful girlfriend, Ann Acheson, where I first come face-to-face with David Evans, whom no one has yet named the Edge.”
― Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“Plouffe didn’t know her well, but he’d dealt with her through the years and liked her. He also thought that she’d been handed a terrible situation. Her prospects of winning, he felt, were remote. But they were at least not zero, so better than Biden’s. He talked to his family. This was going to be a 107-day sprint to save the country from Trump. He would be gone from home for much of it. When Harris called, Plouffe said yes. It was the only solid thing to do. —”
― Jake Tapper, Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again

“The prevailing Federalist view was that such a covenant was lovely to talk about but impossible to bring into being. John Quincy Adams was right when he told his diary that political war was to be the rule, not the exception, in American life. “The country is so totally given up to the spirit of party, that not to follow blindfold the one or the other is an inexpiable offense,” Adams wrote during Jefferson’s first term.12 The Founders’ dream of a nation beyond partisanship was one that simply could not survive the very nature of a free politics in a culture of diverse interests.”
― Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

“Grady was one of the largest hospitals in the world.”
― Karin Slaughter, Blindsighted